During 2020 and continuing into 2021, I strictly quarantined at home. My yard and immediate natural surroundings became my fascination and focal point. I began a semi-abstract garden painting series on paper that soon lead me into a chinoiserie gardenscape fantasy world of botanicals and exotic birds.
My fascination and intrigue with birds has come to a forefront over the last decade. I also have a love of patterns and numbers. I learned about murmurations while living in the piedmont of North Carolina and would continually see these swooping and undulating patterns of hundreds of birds near our home. I began to…
Born and raised in the south, “Southern Roots” is about old established trees, natural growth and wildlife in the south.
